Mark Suster has a good piece on why you shouldn’t pitch a VC with how much PR you’ve received lately. I’d add, the same goes for editors and writers, who really don’t care how much coverage you’ve received from other publications, but how interesting your company/products are to their own readers. I think this is [...]
A fascinating post from podcaster Frank Peters this morning, who reports he just got a cease-and-desist letter from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich over a podcast with the former CEO of TweetPhoto. Apparently, the firm has asked Frank to remove his podcast from the Internet, due to confidential information and “disparaging statements” from his interviewee. Any of [...]
Welcome to the newest sponsor of socalTECH, Gemini Partners. Gemini is an investment banking firm located in Los Angeles focused on the mid-market. You can contact Ivan Nikkhoo of Gemini Partners at (310) 696-4006. Thanks to Gemini Partners, and all of our other sponsors, for making our web site and news coverage of Southern California’s [...]
Just a quick reminder, we’re coming up to LAVA’s “Meet the VC” event next week on November 17th — an excellent opportunity to get to meet all of the venture capitalists in Southern California–and a few from outside the area–in one place. More information on the event is on LAVA’s web site. (socalTECH is a [...]
A couple of Tuesday links: Wiring Los Angeles (John Savageau) – a look into how downtown Los Angeles became a telecom hub, converting empty office space into one of the most densely connected telecom hubs in the world VC Funding Season Ends Next Week (Mark Suster) – Yes, there is such a thing as VC [...]
As much as we write about and cover the many social networking sites, companies, applications, and efforts of folks here in Southern California, sometimes we’re not quite as aggressive on our social media outreach as we ought to be. That said, we wanted to point out our Facebook fan page, which until recently was just [...]
An interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the Wall Street Journal today has him citing Silicon Valley’s weather as one of its key differentiators: When I’m asked about this, and I’ve been asked this for years, I answer this the same: It is the weather. There’s a reason why generations of young people [...]
Sid Mohasseb, one of the Tech Coast Angels, just emailed out about a new “entrepreneur happy hour” the group is running in Orange County, which got me thinking about how entrepreneurs should (or shouldn’t) approach angel and venture investors. I’m sure there are many opinions out there, but based on my time working with angels [...]
The Tech Coast Angels just announced today that a new fellowship at UC Irvine has been established to honor founder Luis Villalobos. Villalobos, who was the driving force behind creating the angel investment group, died unexpectedly last month. The Villalobos Fellowship will attract outstanding students to the full-time MBA program at the Paul Merage School [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
